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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Senate OKs $631 billion defense bill that pushes for US drawdown in Afghanistan
Plus we modeled our government on Rome's.
But if that comparison doesn't work for you, pick another. To be honest, it's probably more likely we'll end up like Britain: increasingly unimportant every decade as the world passes us by.
Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.@Edwards Grizzly [1]
: My bad, it's not in the Constitution proper; it's the 14th Amendment:
In one sense this was made to tell people in the South that they could not refuse Northern money after the Civil War, but it could be construed so as to make it illegal not to honor the debt.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Just noticed that several prominent employers in the area are starting to severely cut their employee's hours, citing the new heath care laws as their reasoning. Ingles Supermarkets
and Wal-Mart are probably some of the larger employers in my area, and they've cut a large number of long-time employees down to less than 30 hours per week. Additionally, Amazon's local distribution warehouses [which employ thousands of people from the surrounding towns] are threatening large-scale layoffs after the new year. On the last one I haven't found anything online about, but I've heard it from multiple people working there over the last few days.
edited 4th Dec '12 5:23:10 PM by carbon-mantis
Elizabeth Warren Expected to Get Banking Panel Seat
Senate OKs drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants
Senate confirms Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford as Afghan war commander
edited 4th Dec '12 5:26:07 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Senate rejects amendment to prevent specified cuts to defense contractors, civilians
Senator Jim DeMint: Boehner’s offer ‘will destroy American jobs’
Paul Ryan addresses fiscal cliff: ‘We’re nowhere. We’re farther than where we started’
edited 4th Dec '12 6:00:16 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016The thing is that if the US leaves the UN, they also leave their position as part of the UN Security Council unoccupied, which means they wouldn't be able to veto what the remaining members of the Security Council decide. One big example would be the US couldn't veto anything concerning Israel and Palestine with their position in the Security Council if they left the UN.
Basically, the US can't leave the UN unless they want to lose all representation in it for the duration.
edited 4th Dec '12 6:10:44 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyThe fact that you need a supermajority (practically impossible to get these days on all but the most routine motions) to pass treaties is a bit crazy. I guess Alexis de Tocqueville had a point when he said that the whole separation of powers thing was a bad move foreign policy wise.
Course he never saw executive orders coming.

Everybody wants to be the new Rome. Russians, Ottomans, Napoleon. I think it's the togas, or those domes.
edited 4th Dec '12 4:57:27 PM by Lascoden
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